The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973

by Mark Greif

Book Overview

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury America

In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114639X
• ISBN13: 9780691146393
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"